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LMlssourl & Kansas]
From Series XXII
No. 2.
Johns Hppigins University Studies in Historical and
Political Science x x x
Slavery in Missouri
1804-1866 by i^arrison -^nthony 1'rexler, Ph. B.
Baltimore, '^he ^^ohns Hopkins 'University Press, 1914.
Chapter Vl
Missouri and Kansas.
[p.173] To understand the great movements which ex¬ cited Missouri and agitated the entire country on more than one occasion-the Compromise of 1820, the Kansas- Nebraska Act and the resulting struggle in Kansas, and the Bred Scott Case-one must get a picture of the State which gave them birth, "^he exposed position of Missouri- '*a slave-holding peninsula jutting up into a sea of free- soil"—was primarily the cause of her continued unrest. This peninsula, unnaturally formed for political reasons to reconcile irreconcilable sections, was exposed still more by the two great rivers. I'he Missouri, coming out of free territory, flowed past free Kansas for a hundred miles and then swerved off through the heart of Missouri's great slave counties, "^he Mississippi for hundred of miles alone separated Missouri from an

LMlssourl & Kansas]
From Series XXII
No. 2.
Johns Hppigins University Studies in Historical and
Political Science x x x
Slavery in Missouri
1804-1866 by i^arrison -^nthony 1'rexler, Ph. B.
Baltimore, '^he ^^ohns Hopkins 'University Press, 1914.
Chapter Vl
Missouri and Kansas.
[p.173] To understand the great movements which ex¬ cited Missouri and agitated the entire country on more than one occasion-the Compromise of 1820, the Kansas- Nebraska Act and the resulting struggle in Kansas, and the Bred Scott Case-one must get a picture of the State which gave them birth, "^he exposed position of Missouri- '*a slave-holding peninsula jutting up into a sea of free- soil"—was primarily the cause of her continued unrest. This peninsula, unnaturally formed for political reasons to reconcile irreconcilable sections, was exposed still more by the two great rivers. I'he Missouri, coming out of free territory, flowed past free Kansas for a hundred miles and then swerved off through the heart of Missouri's great slave counties, "^he Mississippi for hundred of miles alone separated Missouri from an